Wichita Foster Support Shifts to Care for Every Family
If you are a Wichita foster family, Care for Every Family is now carrying on the recruitment and support work Foster ICT once led.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Child Care
Foster ICT, a Wichita, Kansas group that worked to recruit and support foster families, is dissolving. Its work is being carried on by Care for Every Family, a local initiative that Foster ICT helped create, which reaches families before, during and beyond foster care.
Why it matters
Foster ICT was started because there was a significant need for support for foster families in the Wichita area. Those needs are now being met by other organizations, which may change where Wichita-area families turn for recruitment, training and support.
This is an organizational announcement reported in a single news account, with founder experience given as tenure and household figures. The source does not provide outcome data or a comparison group, and it does not say how many families Foster ICT served.
The players
Foster ICT
A Wichita, Kansas group founded to recruit, support and train foster families, now dissolving.
Care for Every Family
A Wichita initiative focused on reducing foster care by supporting families before, during and beyond foster placements, created with help from Foster ICT.
Jill Ayres
A Wichita foster parent of more than 25 years who co-founded Foster ICT and has cared for over 300 children in her home.
Sadie Williams
The leader of Care for Every Family, which is taking on the work Foster ICT set out to do.
The details
Foster ICT was co-founded about six years ago by Jill Ayres, a Wichita foster parent of more than 25 years, to recruit, support and train foster families. Its goals are now being carried out by other groups with a larger reach, most notably Care for Every Family, which Foster ICT helped create. Care for Every Family, led by Sadie Williams, focuses on reducing the need for foster care by bringing people together to support families before, during and after a placement.
Timeline
Foster ICT was co-founded about six years before November 2026, by Jill Ayres.
The dissolution of Foster ICT was reported on November 3, 2026.
Health Landscape
Foster care support in Wichita is shifting from a standalone recruitment and training group toward a broader initiative that emphasizes keeping families together before a placement is needed. The change reflects a wider local move to treat foster care as one part of a larger network of family support.
Wichita families who have relied on Foster ICT for recruitment, training or support should look to Care for Every Family and other local organizations for continued help. Anyone considering foster care or who is already caring for a foster child can raise questions about available support with their child's caseworker or pediatrician.
The takeaway
Foster family support in Wichita is being consolidated under Care for Every Family, so families seeking help should ask local child-welfare providers which group now covers the services they need. Keeping families connected before, during and after foster placements is the approach this transition emphasizes.
Further reading
For more on the services that support families in this area, see Child Care coverage in Wichita.
Source note: This article includes information reported by Kwch.
